Effects of Pressure Oscillations on Drainage in an Elastic Porous Medium

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 569-585

  Jankov, M ^a   Lovoll G ^a   Knudsen, H A ^a   Maloy K J ^a   Planet, R ^b   Toussaint, R ^c   Flekkoy E G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Capillary forces; Drainage displacement; Elasticity; Porous material; Stimulated flow; Two phase flow; Viscous forces

Indexed keywords

APPLIED PRESSURE; CAPILLARY FORCE; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; NON-WETTING FLUIDS; POROUS MEDIUM; PRESSURE OSCILLATION; SEISMIC STIMULATION; STIMULATED FLOW; VISCOUS FORCES; WETTING FLUID;

BLOOD VESSELS; ELASTICITY; FLUIDS; POROUS MATERIALS; WETTING;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

AMPLITUDE; CAPILLARITY; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; DISPLACEMENT; DRAINAGE; FLUID PRESSURE; IMMISCIBLE FLUID; OSCILLATION; PORE PRESSURE; POROUS MEDIUM; TWO PHASE FLOW; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 77956011766     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-009-9521-z     Document Type: Article

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